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Available as part of a Grand Organ Festival Package
Dates
Thursday 03 September 2026
7:30pm at Melbourne Town Hall
Saturday 05 September 2026
2:00pm at Melbourne Town Hall
Duration
Approx. 2 hours including a 20-minute interval
Accessibility
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Wheelchair, walker and scooter accessible
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Assistive listening devices available
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Service animals allowed
Program
Ginastera Estancia: Four Dances
Bizet (arr Guiraud) Carmen Suite No.1
Márquez Danzon No.2
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nocturne
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 Organ
About this performance
Join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as we return to our roots in the Melbourne Town Hall during the year of our 120th anniversary. A Midsummer Night’s Dream was one of the first works we performed in this venue over a century ago, and we’re revisiting its elegant Nocturne for the occasion.
We’re also showcasing the venue’s enormous Grand Organ. British-Australian organist Joseph Nolan will navigate this four-storeys-high instrument as he performs Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3, nicknamed Organ. It’s a theatrical concert program, and not only because the symphony contains the melody that featured in the soundtrack to Babe, that heroic little pig from the movies. The concert also boasts the drama of Bizet’s Carmen as we play an orchestral arrangement of his operatic tale of tragedy and seduction. Bursting with passionate rhythms, our gala concert also features Mexican composer Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No.2, and Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera’s dance suite inspired by a day of country life with cattle, cowboys and all.
Featuring
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Emilia Hoving conductor
Joseph Nolan organ
